She may be a lot of things, but I wouldn't say she's ugly.
Posted on 10/16/2007 10:25:49 AM PDT by mnehring
Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today.
Fellow host Jon Elliott claimed on the liberal radio network that Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, Simon, on Sunday night. Elliot, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a possible conspiracy.
"Is this an attempt by the right-wing, hate machine to silence one of our own?" he asked on the air, according to Talking Radio, a blog. "Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we’re winning? Are they trying to silence intimidate us?"
A police source said Rhodes never filed a report and never claimed to be the victim of a mugging. Cops from Manhattan's 17th Precinct called her attorney, who told them Rhodes was not a victim of a crime, the source said.
Rhodes' lawyer told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog. He said she's not sure what happened, and only knows that she fell down and is in a lot of pain. The lawyer said Rhodes expects to be back on the air Thursday. He stressed there is no indication she was targeted or that she was the victim of a "hate crime."
Rhodes started with the Air America when it launched in 2004. Her show airs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays.
The network released a statement that said Rhodes "experienced an unfortunate incident."
"The reports of a presumed hate crime are unfounded," the statement read by a receptionist at the network's New York offices said. "Ms. Rhodes is looking forward to being back on the air on Thursday."
Still, the tale lived on in the blogosphere.
"What the %$#$ is WRONG with you people?? Are you that SICK in the head that just because you don’t agree with someone’s political views you believe that they deserve to be mugged? Are you on the right that DEMENTED??," a blogger called neddlenosehanty posted on watchingthewatchers.org.
Another blogger shot back, "I very seriously doubt if this unfortunate woman was mugged by a conservative. To jump to the conclusion that she was mugged by someone on the right is bigotry of another kind. Think not?"
That's what it sounds like to me too. Face-plant on a sidewalk with no one around? Party on, Randi!
She may be a lot of things, but I wouldn't say she's ugly.
He said she's not sure what happened, and only knows that she fell down and is in a lot of pain.
“They got Skylar!”
“You don’t know anybody named Skylar!”
And to think that people were feeling sorry for her. She suffers from Munchhassen Syndrome which I have probably misspelled.
“Rhodes’ lawyer told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog. He said she’s not sure what happened, and only knows that she fell down and is in a lot of pain.”
“Drunk?”
In one of the comments on the story someone claimed that she had been drinking heavily in a bar and was loud and disorderly. For whatever that’s worth. If so I’m sure there are witnesses.
They are Stalinsts. Read the words of George Orwell. He was a Socialist until he saw through their lying tactics and horrible abuses.
Damn. Now I have to retract my hysterical laughter. (Yeah, yeah, wrong to laugh at the original story, but I was helpless)
So the left lies again. I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
“She may be a lot of things, but I wouldn’t say she’s ugly.”
Beer googles?? :-)
That is the only photo I could find to post. I was looking for a picture of jackie Coogan when he was wearing a neck brace to scam the Bradys on that classic episode of The Brady Bunch.
Not sure what RR looks like but I am sure its kind of like that guy.
I think the truth is she got smacked up by her “life partner” after the NOW convention and she is looking to pin the blame on “the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”!
Lesbian girlfriends can be abusive too. Why does everyone always want to blame a guy?
Maybe wussie Sam Seder tripped her.
Oh well...too bad for her.
So much for Randi Rhodes’ conversion to Conservatism. She will have to remain a clumsy Liberal.
Well, that was my initial reaction as well, after finding out that there was no mugging.
All sidewalks must now be rubber padded (like jogging tracks) and have handrails.
Maybe she got p3wnd by Bonaduce too:
who?
Makes you wonder...
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